Kevin James

Actor/comedian

Male

BornApr 26, 1965

Age49

HometownStony Brook, New ...

Net Worth$66.67 Million

GenresPhysical comedy +...

Height5' 8" (175 cm)

NationalityAmerican

Alma MaterCortland Universi...

Kevin George Knipfing, better known by his stage name Kevin James, is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is widely known for playing Doug Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens. James is also known for his lead roles in the comedy films I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, The Dilemma, and Zookeeper.… Read More

News + Updates

'There is one document that received little press in last year''s Sony hack -- the script to Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. Emails from Sony execs revealed the studio''s plan to capitalize on the critical success of Zero Dark Thirty by adding "harsh dramatic elements" to all upcoming films in the Sony catalog, including the sequel to Kevin James'' slapstick comedy. To do this, Sony hired Zero Dark Thirty scribe Mark Boal to rewrite Kevin J...

'"Paul Blart: Mall Cop" was a surprise hit in 2009, and six years later, here''s the sequel. Kevin James returns to the title role, which finds America''s best known mall cop going on vacation in Las Vegas with his daughter. There, Blart winds up trying to spoil an "Ocean''s 11"-ish robbery. Hijinks ensue.
Watch the new trailer above. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" is out in theaters on April 17. '

' Kevin James, you rascal…
Somehow we’ve made it four weeks into 2014 without a single Courtney Stodden post which probably explains why she went on a date last night with talent manager David Weintraub whose client list includes pretty much anyone who’s been on a VH1 reality show and Scott Disick, so right away you know her career’s about to go places. Provided she doesn’t freak out when his penis isn’t gray and gets hard without pills. There’s no way tha...

' In the (terrible) 2011 film “The Dilemma,” Kevin James stars as an engineer whose wife is cheating on him. Co-star Vince Vaughn plays the best friend and business partner who catches James’s cheating wife and has to decide whether or not to rat her out. Why wouldn’t Vaughn just come out with it? Because he needs James to focus on completing a project that will land their company the contract of a lifetime. The project in question involves the creation of a...

Timeline

CHILDHOOD

TEENAGE

198318 Years Old
James was raised in the "S-Section" of Stony Brook, New York, and graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1983, where he was on the football and wrestling teams.
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One of his wrestling teammates, Mick Foley, eventually became a professional wrestler. James was a student at, but did not graduate from, the State University of New York at Cortland, where he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity. Read Less

TWENTIES

198924 Years Old
James began doing stand-up comedy in 1989, making his debut at the East Side Comedy Club in Long Island, New York managed by Richie Minervini.
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He gained popularity through numerous appearances on various talk shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Dennis Miller Live, The Late Late Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. James was #89 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians. James has also done his stand-up routine on Just for Laughs, an annual comedy festival in Montreal. Later he was on commercials for Mazzio's Italian Eatery.<br /><br /> In 2001, James did his own stand-up special called Kevin James: Sweat the Small Stuff. He has also appeared as a musical guest on Just for Laughs. Read Less

THIRTIES

199833 Years Old
James moved to Los Angeles and befriended Ray Romano and he later guest-starred on a few episodes of Romano's hit CBS sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. These appearances led to the development of his own sitcom, The King of Queens, which ran on the same network from September 21, 1998 to May 14, 2007.
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James played the lead as a middle-class delivery man, Doug, who worked for a company known as IPS and was married to Carrie (Leah Remini). They lived with his father-in-law, played by Jerry Stiller. For his work on the eighth season, James was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, in 2006.<br /><br /> In 2007, he was the grand marshal, for saying the most famous line in auto racing "Gentlemen, start your engines" for NASCAR racing in the 2007 Pepsi 400. Read Less

200439 Years Old
On June 19, 2004, James married actress Steffiana de la Cruz.
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Their first child, daughter Sienna-Marie, was born 2005. Their second daughter, Shea Joelle, was born 2007, she was named after the ballpark Shea Stadium. They welcomed their first son and third child, Kannon Valentine, 2011. James is the younger brother of comedian Gary Valentine (born Gary Knipfing), who played Doug's cousin Danny Heffernan on King of Queens.<br /><br /> He is a close friend of retired MMA fighter Bas Rutten, and trains with him at his school in Thousand Oaks, California.<br /><br /> Kevin James is also known for being a big sports fan, and is particularly a fan of the New York Knicks, New York Jets, and the New York Mets. Read Less

FORTIES

Kevin George Knipfing (born April 26, 1965), better known by his stage name Kevin James, is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. <br /><br />He is widely known for playing Doug Heffernan on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens. James is also known for his lead roles in the comedy films I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Grown Ups, and Zookeeper. Read Less

He also starred in 2005 romantic comedy film Hitch alongside Will Smith.
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James was the original voice of Otis in Barnyard, but for the rest of the series, Chris Hardwick was filled in to replace James (first in Back at the Barnyard). Read Less

James made his film debut in the 2005 romantic comedy, Hitch, alongside Will Smith and Eva Mendes.

200641 Years Old
In 2006, he co-starred with his Everybody Loves Raymond colleague Ray Romano in the comedy Grilled and provided voice work in the animated films Monster House and Barnyard.

200742 Years Old
In 2007, James co-starred opposite Adam Sandler in the widely scorned comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and also made a cameo in Sandler's 2008 film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

James' 2009 comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop, where he patrolled the West Orange Pavilion Mall on a Segway PT, opened as the #1 film in North America with a weekend gross of $39 million, despite overwhelmingly negative reviews, and eventually grossed $219 million from ticket and home video sales.
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More recently, James appeared in Grown Ups, which co-starred numerous Saturday Night Live alumni and was even more universally panned, yet was highly successful at the box office. Read Less

A web series titled Dusty Peacock produced by James and starring his brother Gary Valentine began streaming on Crackle in July 2009.

He hosted the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, on March 27, 2010.
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James was born Kevin George Knipfing in Mineola, New York. He is the second son of Janet, a homemaker who also worked in a chiropractor's office, and Joseph Valentine Knipfing, Jr., who owned an insurance agency. He has German ancestry. James has two siblings, Gary Joseph Knipfing, known as Gary Valentine, also a comedian, and Leslie Knipfing; Leslie works for James and helped raise money through charity events for retinitis pigmentosa, with which she is afflicted. Read Less

James hosted the 2010 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards on March 27, 2010 on Nick.
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He also was a nominee into the Arm Fart Hall of Fame of the next year's show as Kevin "Not-Quite-As-Good-As-Me" James, but lost to Josh Duhamel. Read Less

He did it again in June 2010 with actor/buddy Adam Sandler to promote Grown Ups as well as 2012 at the fall Talladega race.

201146 Years Old
In 2011, he had a lead role opposite Vince Vaughn in the comedy/Drama, The Dilemma, he also had the leading role in the movie, Zookeeper, which he wrote and produced.